He wants her in his bed ... but can she trust him with her heart? When a duke masquerades as a privateer to track down his father's murderer, his deception results in an unplanned marriage to a young woman with secrets of her own.
Winner of Holt Medallion Award of Merit and Gulf Coast Silken Sands STAR Award. Voted one of the Top 10 Historical Romances for 2013 by RomCon Readers' Crown contest.

~A Victorian Era Romance~
An arranged marriage. A child born out of wedlock. Lord Landon Montague has earned his moniker, Lord Heartless. When plans to foreclose on a debt leads to suicide, redemption may lie in Lady Juliet Gilbert. A dark secret threatens them both. Will they have the last laugh on Shakespeare? Can Montague yet win his fair Juliet?

Betrothed since before her birth to Lord Masterson, Miss Miranda Beauchamp has prepared to be his countess ever since. Although the Earl of Windenshire maintains her upkeep and pays for everything she needs, she might as well not exist for all the attention he pays her. Determined to break the marriage contract, she’ll go to desperate measures to achieve her goal...